How to Avoid the Cliché in a High School Art Project

The piece above was made using the technique of wax-teabag trapping. A large image is cut into many smaller images and then placed into individual tea bags. The teabags are then glued together before an iron is used to melt wax onto the teabags to permanently seal them inside. This creates a fragmented image that has an unusual frail and distressed quality to it.